Not long ago, in one of my favorite installments of Knit the Look, I recommended adapting Stephen West’s free Ferocious Briocheous cowl pattern to knit a rich, cushy, all-black scarf. Today instead of paring that pattern down, I’m suggesting ramping it up! I love the multi-marl infinity scarf on this unidentified beauty, and again it’s Stephen’s pattern to the rescue. The pattern is written for fingering-weight yarn, while this scarf is much chunkier and marled. So we can kill two birds with one stone by holding the yarn double and casting on roughly half the stitches specified in the pattern. (Do a swatch to figure out the right needle size for this — US8, perhaps? — and what the stitch gauge works out to be, so you can multiply that by your desired width.) To get the mixed marl effect, knit most of the scarf holding one strand of charcoal with one strand of ivory, then swap out the charcoal for a bit and hold two strands of ivory, then hold one ivory and one red, and back to two ivory. I used luxurious Road to China Light in Hematite, Riverstone and Ruby for the photos, but these are easy enough colors to approximate that any neck-friendly fingering-weight wool would do. Or if you want it even chunkier, hold two strands of worsted!

See Vanessa Jackman’s original post for another shot of this gorgeous girl and her gorgeous cowl.

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UNRELATED: The Wabi Mitts kits were restocked on Friday and announced to the shop mailing list over the weekend (are you on the list?) so the stock is a bit depleted again, but there are still four colors available at the moment! More on the way …

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Street style photo © Vanessa Jackman; used with permission